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  • The problem with David Attenborough’s spectator environmentalism
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    The problem with David Attenborough’s spectator environmentalism

  • ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters
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    ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters

  • Bhopal’s Barkatullah University to be renamed Vagdevi Bhojpal University
    3

    Bhopal’s Barkatullah University to be renamed Vagdevi Bhojpal University

  • How Vulcan, a hypothetical planet, helped prove Einstein’s theory that gravity is curved spacetime
    4

    How Vulcan, a hypothetical planet, helped prove Einstein’s theory that gravity is curved spacetime

  • For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal
    5

    For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal

  • Review: ‘The Pyramid Scheme’ cheats on a promising idea
    6

    Review: ‘The Pyramid Scheme’ cheats on a promising idea

  • Review: In ‘Maa Behen’, the joys of misbehaving women
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    Review: In ‘Maa Behen’, the joys of misbehaving women

  • ‘Bandar’ review: A relentlessly grim, needling statement on MeToo
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    ‘Bandar’ review: A relentlessly grim, needling statement on MeToo

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    An ‘indigenous’ Assamese woman was pushed into Bangladesh. A year later, she is still stuck there

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    Interview: ‘Good chance that BJP will co-opt Cockroach Janta Party’s demands’

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‘This job, man, this job!’: BBC journalist vents on live TV thinking he’s off-air

Dan Johnson was presenting a report on Afghanistan when a power cut disrupted the proceedings.

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Sep 06, 2021 · 02:21 pm
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Power cut broke the line from London so I couldn’t hear the presenter. Thought I’d been taken off air entirely but finished my answer and waited in case, either to allow them to realise and move on or for the sound to return. Thought I’d waited long enough…apparently not 🙈

— Dan Johnson (@DanJohnsonNews) September 5, 2021
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